Red, White, and Blue

For a fourth of July theme, I used leftovers from the Strawberry Swirl cheesecake. This gave me the red and white. For the blue, I made a Blueberry Sauce. I didn't have any vanilla sugar, so I used plain sugar and added a couple drops of vanilla extract (side note: vanilla sugar-making is on mt horizon. It just calls for combining a bag of sugar and 1-2 vanilla beans - halved, with seeds removed - and leaving it for at least a week. The vanilla flavor/aroma will be absorbed by the sugar). Also, the blueberry sauce did not thicken as much as I wanted (maybe in the future I'll add less water?) so I dissolved some cornstarch in a little water and added it to the simmering blueberry syrup. It thickened in a couple seconds.

I also saw a couple recipes make reference to using blueberry filling as a topping... simple choice, but the homemade version is more flavorful!